Blogfodder Dump: 20061117

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This business model is probably patented, anyway: Peter Zura proves himself a Renaissance man (patent and copyright) with the post Patent Troll, Meet Sample Troll.

It’s a small world, after all: the Online Press Gazette’s list of the “new establishment” of online journalism in Britain. Interesting read: note that the top ten can be summarized as “an Australian/naturalized American, another American, and pretty much anybody who works at the BBC or the Guardian. And oh yeah, the Daily Telegraph used to be pretty cool, too.”

Start swapping in words other than “search” and the real fun starts: Bill Burnham noting that Search + State + Metadata = A Search Application. Just sit and think about that equation for a while before you read the post, please. It’s worth the extra time out of your day.